The Indian Meteorological Department, IMD has decided to set up weather stations in 660 districts of the country. Giving this information the Director general of IMD K J Ramesh said, this plan will be further taken up to the blocks level. He said, the plan envisages to cover 660 districts by 2019. <br/><br/>In the first phase, the IMD plans to set up the system in 130 districts which have already been shortlisted. The IMD has also tied up with the Ministry of Agriculture to use the Krishi Vigyan Kendras, under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, ICAR in the districts, to use them as weather forecasting observatories. Weather forecasts will be issued four days a week between Monday to Thursday. Mr Ramesh said, as of now country has weather forecasting system in 130 districts which gives forecasts for a cluster of neighbouring districts. He said, this will now be diversified and every district will have its own weather forecast. <br/><br/>Mr Ramesh added that this will further percolate at the block level, with the MET department giving predictions, keeping the rain-fed and non-rain-fed areas into consideration to give crop specific advisories. He said, the IMD will also start giving state-specific weather forecasts from this year. It currently gives region-specific weather forecasts namely for the southern peninsula, northwest, central and northeast regions during monsoons.